Pete Conrad

Pete Conrad was an American NASA astronaut, naval officer and test pilot, born on 2 June 1930 and died on 8 July 1999. He commanded Apollo 12 and became the third person to walk on the Moon. NASA selected him in 1962 in its second group, and he was the first Ivy League astronaut, with a Princeton degree. He set an eight-day endurance record in 1965 with Gordon Cooper on Gemini 5, flew Gemini 11 in 1966, and commanded Skylab 2 in 1973. Wikidata records 49 days and 3 hours in space across five flights. He had dyslexia.

Born: 2 June 1930
Died: 8 July 1999
Country: United States
Flights: 5: Gemini 5 (1965), Gemini 11 (1966), Apollo 12 (1969), Skylab (1973), Skylab 2 (1973)
Time in space: 49 days 3 hours

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

Skylab
- Apollo spacecraft, Saturn V
Skylab was a Saturn V third stage turned into a house. Sixty-three seconds after liftoff the thin shield that was meant to protect it from meteoroids and sunlight tore away, taking one of its two solar arrays with it.
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